Achievement
| "Achievement is not about what you've done, but what you've gained from your experience." - Lynn Hill, rock climber |
| Coping |
"Being crabby is real and it's healing. It can help us get closer to what's wrong, or what hurts." - Sark, artist, writer |
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"She who laughs, lasts." -Mary Pettibone Poole, writer |
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"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez, singer-songwriter |
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"Repeat an ego boosting mantra to yourself: 'I rule, I rule, I rule.'" - Sara Eckel, writer |
Creativity |
"Answering a creative need within affirms one's self-worth." - Mary Chapin Carpenter |
Doing it 100% |
"Be as outrageous as you want to be." - Peggy Klaus, business exec., speaker |
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"Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others." - Barbara De Angelis, writer, speaker |
Future |
"The process of life, from youth to middle age to old age to death, is to create something beautiful, the soul." - Ai Ja Lee, acupuncturist, writer |
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"I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done." - Rachel Carson, environmentalist, marine biologist, writer |
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"I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing." - Annie Dillard, writer |
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"I dream, therefore I become." - Cheryl Renée Grossman, librarian, massage therapist |
| Image |
"If people see me as competent first, that's more of a compliment than saying, 'She's really cute.'" - Sandra Bullock, actor |
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"Can you imagine what would happen if girls took all the energy they spend worrying about their image and put it into painting, writing, theorizing, science, or sports?" - Joan Jacobs Brumberg, writer |
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"Don't let others define you by what you like or don't like, or what you can or can't do." - Marsha Kinder, professor, software developer, writer |
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"I have known women who were not physically beautiful but who expressed themselves so magnificently that the result was an image of a beautiful woman." - Marianne Willimson, writer, speaker |
| Perseverance |
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin, writer |
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"The day I finally beat my brothers on the court was one of the sweetest victories I've ever experienced. They finally admitted, "It's got nothing to do with her being a girl, SHE'S JUST GOOD." - Sheryl Swoopes Jackson, basketball player |
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"It's 5% talent, 15% skill, and 80% hanging in there." - Lucy Lawless, actor |
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"Do not feel entitled to anything that you do not sweat or struggle for ." - Marian Wright Edelman, children's advocate, writer |
| Support |
"My means of empowerment has always been to search out wonderful friends, people who believe in me, who help me believe in myself." - Sandy Warshaw, activist |
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"The truth is that love is the best feeling to have in the world." - Lauren Bacall, actor |
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"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of my sister?" - Alice Walker, writer, poet |
| Thinking Women |
"To think and be fully alive are the same." - Hannah Arendt, sociologist, historian |
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"People respect you when you say,'This is what I think and this is why I think it.'" - Lucy Berroteram, business executive |
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